Night Reign

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Verve Records is proud to announce 'Night Reign', the upcoming album from GRAMMY Award-winning artist Arooj Aftab. Moving away, without ever forgetting, the grief and loss that animated her last solo album, Vulture Prince (which features the GRAMMY Best Global Music Performance-winning track "Mohabbat"), on which she confronted what can be too quick and easy. Taken away, Aftab appears here with original music and in yet another form: as a bard of everyday possibilities, of tranquility and life-changing romance. 'Night Reign' is also a striking reflection of the creative community Aftab has fostered in her home of Brooklyn, New York, with established artists including: Vijay Iyer, Cautious Clay, Moor Mother, James Francies, Joel Ross, Kaki King, Maeve Gilchrist; and Chocolat Genius, Inc. "These songs focus on the night, which has many faces. For me, the night is quiet, calm, and soothing. The night offers a refuge in which I recount memories and accept circumstances. The night is my greatest source of inspiration: where new connections with people are made; where movement on the streets of New York is at its peak; where one falls in love again... and again; where we lose ourselves to its powers. The night is for resolutions, for preparing a new dawn. The night is meant to take one's power and manifest what one ultimately wishes to be."